We just signed up for the 2011 Readers Studio. Woot! This year it runs from April 29-May 1. Check out the presenter list:

Caitlín Matthews
Caitlín is an acknowledged world authority on Celtic wisdom, the Western Mysteries and the ancestral traditions of Britain and Europe. Author of over 60 books and tarot decks including, The Arthurian Tarot, Celtic Wisdom Tarot and Da Vinci Enigma Tarot.

Corrine Kenner
Author of twelve books, including Tarot for Writers, Simple Fortunetelling with Tarot Cards and Tarot Journaling. Corrine teaches and lectures on tarot internationally in Europe, Canada and across the United States.

Barbara Moore
Barbara serves as the tarot specialist for Llewellyn Publications and is the author of several books for tarot decks including, The Hip Witch Tarot, A Guide to Mystic Faerie Tarot, The Gilded Tarot Companion, Enchanted Oracle, and the exciting new Shadowscapes Tarot.

And here’s where you can read more details about each presenter.

Looks like it’ll be a lot of fun. What about you, are you going? If so, what are you looking forward to most?

Shuffle the deck and lay out the cards as per the diagram.

Card 1: This card represents you, your attitude, innocence, naivete, your inexperience in this situation.

Card 2: This card represents that upon which you have always relied, the solidity of the past that you may have to leave now. This card is certainty and routine and the familiar.

Card 3: This card represents the risk you have to take, the first step into the unknown, whether large or small.

Card 4: This card represents your fears, which can be real or imaginary, grounded in the reason of the situation or founded in panic.

Card 5: This card represents the unknown, what you have to gain, the learning you will come by, the experience and maturity that can be had, the life you can be living.

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Here Comes the Sun Spread

1. How do you define joy?
2. How does joy connect you to the divine or your Higher Self?
3. How do you express joy in your daily life?
4. How do you receive joy?
5. How do you give or share joy?
6. What gives you joy intellectually or how do you experience it intellectually?
7. What gives you joy creatively or spiritually or how do you experience it creatively or spiritually?
8. What gives you joy physically or how do you experience it physically?
9. What gives you joy emotionally or how do you experience it emotionally?

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If you have a tarot spread you’d like to submit for consideration in being featured here, please contact us. You can also post in the comments or let us know on Twitter.

Write a nursery rhyme about…a mysterious box…from a nervous person’s point of view.

Draw three random cards and use them to guide and illustrate your rhyme.

I’m off to try it myself. Enjoy!

Horns and Hooves Spread

1. Trait Admired (Horns)
2. How is this trait a downfall? A weakness?
3. Trait Despised (Hooves)
4. How is this trait useful? A strength?
5. What do I need to “mend my shell with pearl”? (Advice towards wholeness and integration)

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If you have a tarot spread you’d like to submit for consideration in being featured here, please contact us. You can also post in the comments or let us know on Twitter.

Covering All the Angles Spread

The positions in this spread are based on the four angles in an astrological chart, which represent four key areas of life. The purpose of the spread is to discover what you need to focus on right now in each area or simply to explore the current and projected conditions in each area.

The cards are placed on an imaginary zodiac wheel, with three cards placed on the First House (House of Self), three cards  on the Fourth House (House of Home and Family), three cards on the Seventh House (House of Relationships and Partnerships), and 3 cards on the Tenth House (House of Career).

Note that the 12 positional numbers in the spread do not represent the 12 houses. This spread examines only issues related to Houses 1, 4, 7, and 10 — the houses on the angles of the zodiac wheel.

1. Self – what is working in my favor
2. Self – what is working against me
3. Self – forecast

4. Home and Family – what is working in my favor
5. Home and Family – what is working against me
6. Home and Family – forecast

7. Relationships and Partnerships – what is working in my favor
8. Relationships and Partnerships – what is working against me
9. Relationships and Partnerships – forecast

10. Career – what is working in my favor
11. Career – what is working against me
12. Career – forecast

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If you have a tarot spread you’d like to submit for consideration in being featured here, please contact us. You can also post in the comments or let us know on Twitter.

The Shooting Star Spread

1: This reveals the distance I have already come.
2: This reveals the lessons I have already learned.
3: This reveals the direction I hope to go.
4: This reveals the lessons I have yet to learn.
5: This reveals the foundation I need to build.
6: This reveals the obstacles I may have to face.
7: This reveals the desires I hope to fulfill.
8: This reveals the strength I need to develop.
9: This reveals the joy I hope to experience.
10: This reveals the enlightenment I hope to achieve.

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If you have a tarot spread you’d like to submit for consideration in being featured here, please contact us. You can also post in the comments or let us know on Twitter.

Anyway, today’s writing prompt comes from Corrine Kenner‘s Tarot Journaling site: I am the Hanged Man. I’ve been hanging here for a long time. Why do I continue to hang like this, day after day? I think it’s because __________

Related Link: Tarot Journaling by Corrine Kenner